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by Laura (guest)
11/4/2001, 4:26 PM
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Yes, I spelled Kieth the way we were going to spell it. My husband's middle name was Kieth, which he was told by his mother was a Russian variant of Keith, pronounced "Kee-ayth", and that his father (in college at the time and editor of the poetry magazine on campus) had been really in to everything Russian when he was born, and that's why they picked it (along with naming him Ian, when his father refused to let Adair name him after him - John). After he died, his mother's brother informed his sister and I that the name was Keith, not Kieth, and that *he* had picked it out when Ian was born. At the funeral, his father's father informed me that Ian was named after him, because Keith was his middle name. Amazing how one name can have so many meanings... or how many people you can fool into thinking you named someone after them! ;-)No, I never bothered to check the birth certificate.Laura
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- Lilith (guest)   +6
11/4/2001, 5:03 PM
Does the name have to be one name or can it be a first name/last name combo? And does it have to actually mean "owl" and "thunderbolt" or can it be derived from them?-Lilith
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- Laura (guest)   +5
11/4/2001, 6:31 PM
At this point, I'm far past caring (except that it be a female name). I tried anagrams of "owl thunder" "owl thunderbolt" "owl bearing thunderbolt", and many of the different language versions of those words that I had found. While I did get some amusing anagrams (Batwing Bordello Hunter and Gabrielle Downturn Both), I got very little in the way of something I could use... so, hey, if anyone can think of anything - one or two names, or maybe even three - that somehow has the meanings of owl and thunder in there, and sounds good (Jaswinder Opa just didn't do it for me), please, throw it out.Thunder owl got me "Don't we hurl"...Also Ruth Weldon, but I guess I'm being picky. I didn't like that one. My ex-best friend's middle name was Ruth.Laura, trying to picture what "Canaan Tudor" would look like...
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- Nanaea   +4
11/4/2001, 7:25 PM
Hey, Pavlos? I think she's speaking our language... :)"Ruth Weldon" was very good. And "Don't we hurl" cracked me up. :)Okay, how's 'bout..."Thunder Owl"
HUNTER WOLD"Thunder-bearing Owl"
GWENDOLINA THURBER"Thunderbolt-bearing Owl"
ROBERTAH DREW BULLINGTON
TOBI DAWNELLE THORNBERG-- Nanaea
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- Laura (guest)
11/5/2001, 8:12 AM
Sidenote on "Hunter"How odd - Thunder Owl got Ruth Weldon AND Hunter Wold. Ruth is my ex-best-friend's middle name, and Hunter is her son's name. How very odd. His 1st birthday is coming up, too...Too bad, I liked both of those names.Laura
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- Laura (guest)
11/5/2001, 8:04 AM
Oooh! I didn't get anything like those names... well, something got me Deborah Burlington Welt and Deborah Burt Wellington. I'm not really fond of the name Tobi, but I kind of like Dawnelle Thornberg. Maybe Dawnelle Bito-Thornberg?I really like Gwendolina Thurber. Hmmm...Here's some of the other amusing things I got yesterday. I don't remember what words I had put it - I just scribbled down words that either looked promising or funny. I got more of the latter than the former!Blend truth wool
Blonde utter howl
Dub the troll nowThrown duel
Dwelt Huron
Hold wet urnAunt Arcana Duo
Canada Auto RunA Canna Tudor
A Duncan Tora (maybe Duncan Atora?)
Draco Annuta
Can a toad run?
Run to Canada
Anaconda Rut
NCAA Rotunda
Dana Can Tour
Canaan TudorSo maybe I'll just ask the question: "Can a toad run to Canada while holding a wet urn?"Thank you for the help!! Now to figure out what to actually use...Laura
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- Pavlos (guest)
11/5/2001, 2:42 AM
Batwing Bordello *is* my language... :)
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- Nanaea
11/4/2001, 7:32 PM
Correction..."Thunderbolt-bearing Owl"
ROBETAH DREW BULLINGTON
or
ROBERTAH DEW BULLINGTON-- Nanaea
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